8 on track & 2 pending; Pune high on special township projects

Special townships proposed for the city are residential in nature while such projects fall in two categories — agricultural and residential. The conditions for these townships include 100 acres in one stretch,an 18-metre-wide road in the existing land as well as getting it dereserved under section 18 (B) of the Maharashtra Regional Town Planning Act 1966 and a letter of intent from the collector in 45 days.

Officials with the Town Planning department said the special township projects needed clearances from the Ministry of Environment and Forests,Maharashtra Pollution Control Board as well as the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation. “A 15 per cent bank guarantee on the master plan layout too needs to be given to the government and they are supposed to operate the project for 25 years,’’ one of them said.

The entire process takes at least six months. The cleared projects for Pune are Amanora Township at Hadapsar by City Corporation Ltd,Blueridge township in Hinjewadi by Flagship Developers,Nanded City at Nanded gaon on Sinhagad road by Satish Magar,I-ven township at Jambe Marunje by Kolte Patil,Kumar Igloos at Mhalunge by Kumar Builders,Gurblakshmi Realty Township at Bhugaon by Gulbakshmi Realtors,Eiffel Township at Mulshi by Eiffel developers and Oxford Knowledge city at Lavle by Oxford Pvt Ltd.

The two projects in the pipeline are Forest Trail township at Bhugaon by Matrix Development Pvt Ltd and LK Developers at Manjari Khurd. Town Planning department officials said these proposals were pending owing to lack of clearance.